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January 12, 2021
Question

Lightroom not allowing me to drag photos into a collection

  • January 12, 2021
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I've created a new collection in the collections folder but when i try to drag a photo from folders into the collection it's not letting me do this. Usually this works fine. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks, david

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Bob Somrak
Legend
January 12, 2021

Are you trying to drag into a Smart Collection?

M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
Participant
January 12, 2021

Hi Bob, No I was trying to drag them into a normal collection. After doing some research I then tried creating a new target collection and adding them that way which worked. After that it seems to resolved itself and I can drag photos to any collection now. Not sure why it wouldn't allow me earlier today though.

 

Rob_Cullen
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 14, 2021

If you did not already know-  When you drag photos from Grid to a standard Collection, you must click the mouse cursor on the image area of a thumbnail to start the drag.  If the cursor is placed on the grey border & left mouse button pressed- dragging photos is not possible.

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .